Perhaps there is another solar system/universe in which Jesus is the most mega-yeah-mega-yeah-mega-powerful. This is allowed for by the Hulkamania interpretation of quantum mechanics.
In Big Red Son, David Foster Wallace talks about how pornography is at its best when the performers can express legitimate sexual gratification on screen. I think wrestling is the same way; the ability to show something genuine to the audience is of massive importance to the show, and in the clean-living and overly scripted era of the WWE, few if any wrestlers are capable of it (CM Punk was one, but he left).
Hulk Hogan is a tremendous performer and charismatic talent and could occasionally do it. Macho never failed to do. There was an insane side to him - definitely amplified by drugs - and he would let it all hang out.
Definitely agree with all of this. Although Savage was on a whole other planet (in more ways than one) than Hogan.
Savage had the perfect mixture of being athletic, having a certain type of insanity, having an incredible work ethic, and just happening to find a very niche business that catered to those qualities. That's why I am a big fan of his, but not necessarily wrestling. As a grown man he found something he was good at and enjoyed doing, then threw all of himself into it, totally. That seems like a really rare thing to achieve in life, especially now.